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Word: theys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Journalistic Homers have sung for years the deeds of the Eastern trunk lines in their unceasing consolidation battles. Last week they smote a new chord on their lyres, began a new canto of the railroad epic. They turned to the West and the great Western railroads. In San Francisco last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Battle in the West | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Sages. Many were the self-proclaimed sages who declared they had predicted the break. But outstanding Wise Man was Roger W. Babson who, after a record of much unsuccessful seering, publicly forecast the decline, although instead of his break of "60-80 points," the industrial average dropped 183 (according to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Heroes, Wags, Sages | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

From the Ritz jumped two men hand-in-hand. They had held a joint account.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Heroes, Wags, Sages | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Painter Robinson's murals are each about 15 ft. x 8 ft. Beginning with an animated commercial squabble between the Persians and the Arabs, they progress to Carthaginians in the Mediterranean striking a crafty bargain with the Egyptians. Venetians in the Levant when bartering was done with benefit of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: History of Commerce | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Most such Chicagoans send their children to eastern colleges.* But they are city-loyal to the extent of attending an induction ceremony and they respect the aura of culture which the Chicago faculty casts over fashionable Chicago dinner tables.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Midway | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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